Pharmaceuticals

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change Strategies

AIG, Ben & Jerry’s, Citigroup, Alcoa, Intel, Timberland, Toyota and HP to Debate Climate Change StrategiesEnvironmental Leader is pleased to be a supporting partner of Ethical Corporation's Climate Change Strategies and Environmental Communication conference: With CEO after CEO now committing to act on climate change, big US brands are scrambling to ...

May 2, 2007

Baxter Offsets 100% Of Headquarters’ Electricity

Baxter Offsets 100% Of Headquarters’ ElectricityIn a keynote address today at the 2007 Ceres Conference in Boston, Baxter Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert L. Parkinson, Jr. announced that  in recent weeks Baxter has purchased renewable energy certificates equivalent ...

April 25, 2007

Green Movement Turns ‘Mainstream’ For Corporate America

Green Movement Turns ‘Mainstream’ For Corporate AmericaCorporate America's embrace of the green movement is no longer just for free-spirited maverick companies. Mainstream giants in markets spanning consumer products, banking, airlines and chemicals are cutting emissions and looking for ways to get ...

April 20, 2007

Roche Adds More Hybrids to Sales Fleet

Roche Adds More Hybrids to Sales FleetRoche has increased the number of hybrid vehicles in its pharmaceutical sales fleet to a total of 242 vehicles as of the end of 2006. Having this number of hybrids in the Roche fleet will result ...

April 10, 2007

Green Marketers To Get Discovery Channel Dedicated to Green Topics

Green Marketers To Get Discovery Channel Dedicated to Green TopicsDiscovery Channel is launching the first-ever 24-hour TV network dedicated solely to green lifestyle programming. The initiative, launching next year, includes a $50 million investment in new original content and a multi-platform offering with interactive ...

April 6, 2007

Corporate America’s Love Affair with Green Power More Than PR Fluff

Corporate America’s Love Affair with Green Power More Than PR FluffA recent CNNMoney.com article asks, how much of recent corporate renewable energy annoucements are PR fluff? "It's 98 percent real and 2 percent PR," Mike Eckhart, president of the American Council on Renewable Energy, says ...

March 21, 2007

EPA’s Performance Track Adds 55 New Facilities

EPA’s Performance Track Adds 55 New FacilitiesFrom leading food and beverage companies to a major automobile manufacturer, 55 new facilities have joined the National Environmental Performance Track. The partnership program recognizes facilities that set three-year goals for continuous improvements ...

March 7, 2007

EPA Seeks Comment on U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory

EPA Seeks Comment on U.S. Greenhouse Gas InventoryThe EPA is seeking public comment on a draft report that analyzes sources of greenhouse gas emissions. The report, Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2005, will be open for public comment for ...

February 23, 2007

Bayer, Citigroup, GE Among Companies That Back ‘De-Carbonization’ Plan

Bayer, Citigroup, GE Among Companies That Back ‘De-Carbonization’ PlanA group of companies and organizations from around the world, including Allianz, Bayer, Citigroup, DuPont, General Electric, and Volvo have endorsed a post-Kyoto framework for affecting change at the levels of policy and industry, particularly ...

February 21, 2007

Wells Fargo Leads EPA’s Top 25 Green Power List

Wells Fargo Leads EPA’s Top 25 Green Power ListFor the first time, a corporation ­ leads EPA's national Top 25 list of green power purchasers. Wells Fargo & Company claimed the top spot, purchasing 550 million kilowatt hours annually. Organizations that purchase electricity ...

January 29, 2007

Abbott Joins GreenFleet

Abbott Joins GreenFleetAbbott is the first company to sign on (via Greenbiz) to the GreenFleet program which was developed jointly by PHH Arval and Environmental Defense to reduce pollution among the approximately ...

January 12, 2007

Boulder’s Municipal Carbon Tax Passes

Boulder’s Municipal Carbon Tax PassesUltra-liberal Boulder, Colorado has passed the country’s first municipal carbon tax, MSNBC reports. The Boulder tax will raise average home bills $1.33 per month and businesses will pay an extra $3.80 per month, according ...

November 14, 2006